Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 12 November 2021 11:57:28 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > > > Use an expert install. > > > > set up the disks as RAID 10 first, then use the partition editor to > > assign the RAID as /home > > > > At that point, you're done :) > > That will be good, but getting rid of the first raid10 I built is needing > tactical nukes. Its taking almost 40 minutes a drive to zero them and > start over. And this machine is acting like an 8086 machine doing it. > very very slow. gkrellm is showing all 6 core in bright orange. Not any > great temp rises though, staying below 35C for all 6 cores. The heat > sink/radiator is huge, so huge I can't put the side panel back on the > tower. 5" fan is turning silently at maybe 400 revs. I think I overbuilt > it ;o)
No need to do it the hard way: For each disk, run # wipefs /dev/sdX which will not destroy anything ; it will list the commands needed to remove the existing filesystems. Then run that command, generally of the form wipdefs -o 0x1000 or such, which will complete in seconds. Repeat for the next disk. -dsr-
